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Aral Balkan

@jstogdill If you ever have some time, here’s a talk I gave last year (the tools have come along a bit since then) but the first ten minutes or so is probably a good summary.

ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-com

Basically, you’re right, they could easily be, which is why Domain is designed not to scale, why I’m spending so much time/effort to ensure anyone run their own, why you can easily point any other domain at it after the initial setup and easily migrate to a different server, and why it’s all free software, etc. Not saying some asshat won’t find some bloody way of centralising/sabotaging it but trying my darnest to ensure it’s not in any way interesting for those folks. 🤞

Aral Balkan · Small Web: computer science colloquium at University of GroningenDownload the video and watch it with your favourite video player. Recording1 of the live stream of a computer science colloquium on the Small Web I presented at the University of Groningen on June 11th, 2024. (Transcript) Update: I was going back and forth between calling the personal social network Place and Yarn. In the talk, I refer to it as Yarn. As I’ve been working more on it, I’ve reverted to its original name, Place.